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Soon after the the new military chief of staff Alexander Yano assumed his post and announced a bounty […]
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Starting just about now, members of PISTON will wage a nationwide transport strike to demand an reprieve from […]
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita got a surprise from students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Instead of […]
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CENPEG), launched last April 7, a book titled The Corruptionary, which […]
From the far north, the Cagayan Valley, is this video that creatively exposes abuses being suffered by the […]
People’s organizations led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan will hold a public tribute to retired Philippine Navy Captain Danilo P. Vizmanos on Monday, 3:30 pm at the mini-theater of the University of Makati.
Who is Vizmanos? Read Alex Remollino’s piece to know a bit more or this article by Bonifacio Ilagan. But better read Vizmanos’ own book titled “A Matter of Conviction”.
Vizmanos also wrote two other books: “Through the Eye of the Storm” and “Martial Law Diaries”, which he described as “a chronicle of troubled times”.
Filipino journalists mark World Press Freedom Day today, May 3, not on a cheerful note. As the Committee […]
The Arroyo government sent a 45-member official delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s recent session in Geneva which placed the Philippines under a “universal periodic review”.
Human rights lawyer Edre Olalia of the People’s UPR Watch and president of the International Association of People’s Lawyers, furnished us a copy of a list of individuals who formed part of the Philippine delegation.
The list, which came from the UNHRC, includes the following:
- Eduardo Ermita, executive secretary
- Enrique Manalo, undersecretary, Department of Foreign Affairs
- Erlinda Basilio, Philippine Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva
- Edwin Enrile, deputy executive secretary
- Cecilia Rachel Quisumbing, undersecretary, Office of the Executive Secretary
- Ricardo Blancaflor, undersecretary, Department of Justice
Jose Torres and Rowena Paraan of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines today issued a statement expressing grief over the unending slays of journalists.
Benefredo Acabal was slain April 7 in Pasig City.
The global Reporters Without Borders organization issued this alert over Acabal’s murder.
Below is the NUJP’s statement emailed to journalists and media outlets a few moments ago and issued on the day of Acabal’s burial:
Grieving for press freedom
Today, we lay to rest the first journalist slain in 2008 and the 56th under the Arroyo administration. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines joins the family, friends and colleagues of newspaper publisher and columnist Benefredo Acabal in mourning the murder of another member of the Philippine media.
Acabal published the tabloid Pilipino Newsmen and wrote a column under the name Freddie Yanco. Before putting up his own paper two years ago, he wrote for other tabloids, among them Toro, Saksi and Puntos. His murder orphaned four children, aged four to nine years old.
Acabal was brazenly chased and gunned down by a lone gunman in front of eyewitnesses in Pasig on April 7. While police investigations have yet to conclude if Acabal’s murder was related to his work, his friends and colleagues strongly believed it was. Acabal reportedly received several threats prior to his death.
At least seventeen countries grilled and questioned Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita‘s “universal periodic review” report before the United Nations
Human Rights Council on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ermita, who led a big official Philippine delegation to the UPR session on the country, is now under attack both in Geneva and in Manila from human rights watchdogs for claiming “success” in defending the Arroyo government’s bloody human rights record.
Atty. Edre U. Olalia, president of the International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) and a member of the People’s UPR Watch delegation to Geneva, said that representatives of at least 17 countries “incessantly questioned” Ermita over extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, women and children’s rights, migrant rights, indigenous people’s rights, corruption and on the reason why the Philippines has not signed or ratified instruments against torture and disappearances.
“Stripped of the usual diplomatic courtesies, this sizable number sends a strong message that the Philippine human rights record is both under the microscope and within the radar of the international community,” said Olalia.
Among the questions raised on the Philippines where on the absence of convictions of perpetrators of 901 political killings.
The Arroyo government’s 44-member delegation led by Exective Secretary Eduardo Ermita will face the United Nations Human Rights […]
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The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan has made a preliminary study of the ongoing rice crisis which was presented to […]
The Department of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission held a joint press conference this morning to announce […]